books.google.com - It is Depression-era New Orleans, and Shelton Lafleur, eight years old, tumbles from the top of a tree, crippling him for life. Deliverance arrives in the form of a man named Minou, who takes Shelton into his family and under his tutelage. "This is the stuff of which classics are made and what literature...https://books.google.com/books/about/The_wrecked_blessed_body_of_Shelton_Lafl.html?id=iFhaAAAAMAAJ&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe wrecked, blessed body of Shelton Lafleur